The Fortune Cookie
The Fortune Cookie alternative UK title Meet Whiplash Willie is a 1966 film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first onscreen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
Jack Lemmon originally had two other actors proposed to star with him Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason but Lemmon insisted that he do the picture with Walter Matthau. Production on the film was halted for weeks after Walter Matthau had a heart attack. By the time filming was completed he had slimmed down from 190 to pounds, and had to wear a heavy black coat to conceal the weight loss.Scenes were filmed at the Minnesota Vikings vs. Cleveland Browns game, held at Cleveland Stadium on the afternoon of Halloween 1965, in which the Vikings beat the Browns 2717. Saint Marks Hospital in the film is the newly completed St. Vincent Charity Hospital, a curved building considered ultramodern at that time. The sceneclarification needed was filmed on East 24th Street in an older section. Terminal Tower served as the exterior of the law firm. In one scene, one can see Erieview Tower and the steel skeleton of the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building under construction. ........
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